Raw-Steel Production
Rose 0.4% Last Week

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated Feb. 2, 1999 12:20 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Raw-steel production by the nation's mills increased 0.4% in the week ended Saturday to 2,011,000 tons from the 2,002,000 tons produced the previous week, the American Iron and Steel Institute said.

The week's output was down 9.3% from the 2,216,000 tons produced during the year-earlier period.